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If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach

The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
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Eye Long Maturity
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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Disaster Feet Mountain
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Bird Nature Swamp
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Men Selfish Vanity
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work

If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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